Example Sentences

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The attempt to become a good public speaker is a great awakener of all the mental faculties.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

If only his age and its royal awakener had understood each other better!

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley

Just as the terrible and efficient awakener was about to slap down on its victim’s placid face the victim opened her eyes and looked up at the plotter reproachfully.

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel

For an immeasurable second, the awakener knows not who he is, nor why, nor where.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The awakener is science—empirical science turning its brave eyes upon man, its maker, to reveal the origin and destroy the excessive pretensions of his thoughts.

From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Eastman, Max